Weekly Assemblies
When pupils take part in a VotesforSchools lesson, they submit their opinions via our voting platform. Then, in the next week's assembly, they hear what the world has got to say back to them. It's their opportunity to see opinions from other schools across the UK, as well as from organisations such as the police, an MP or a relevant charity.
Last week's question comes back as a big, bold result - a Yes-No split the whole hall can read, plus real anonymous comments from named schools and sometimes a response from the organisations that actually hear them.
They're the vehicle to let your pupils know how their voices are impacting the world, and that adults are listening.
They then delve a little deeper into how other schools voted - viewing real anonymous comments from named schools. They have the realisation that their lesson is bigger than just their classroom: that pupils across the UK are talking about the same issues.
The new VoteTopic is introduced to the whole school at once, ready for every class to vote on afterwards - so nobody's the last to find out what everyone's talking about.
Real comments, real schools, never real names
Comments shown in assembly are credited to a school - "a Yes comment from a voter at Outwood Academy Portland" - never to a pupil. It's the same anonymity the rest of the platform is built around, just visible on a big screen instead of a spreadsheet.
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Our assembly slides are built with accessibility in mind, using larger text and bigger imagery than a lesson deck - designed to be read clearly from the back row of a full hall, not just the front of a classroom.
Download one of our most popular VotePacks, and the assembly alongside it, to see how it works, and how you can bring it to life in your school.
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